The 40th MAC deployed to Afghanistan in January. The remainder of the company will return in coming weeks.

The early-morning event at the installation's Bell Gymnasium is the second redeployment ceremony at WSMR in the past two weeks. The battalion's 595th Sapper Company returned from Afghanistan on Sept. 10.

Saturday's return was made more poignant by the loss of two of the company's soldiers. Spc. Kenneth Clifford Alvarez, 23, of Santa Maria, Calif., and PV2. Jonathon Michael Dean Hostetter, 20, of Humphreys, Mo., died Aug. 23 from wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device during combat operations in Haft Asiab, Afghanistan.

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